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Online booking of reserved tickets by foreign tourists

Commercial Circular No. 18 of 2019
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Circular numberCommercial Circular No. 18 of 2019
File numberNo. 2017/TG-1/20/P/FT
TypeCommercial Circular
Topicreservation
CurrencyHistorical — likely superseded
Official PDFindianrailways.gov.in

Summary

Online booking of reserved tickets by foreign tourists Sub: Online booking of reserved tickets by foreign tourists.

Text of the circular

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GOVERNMENT OF INDIA (भारत सरकार)
MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS (रेल मंत्रालय)

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No. 2017/TG-1/20/P/FT Quota Pt. New Delhi, Dated: 14 .03.2019

The Principal Chief Commercial Managers,
All Zonal Railways.

‘Managing Director,
CRIS, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi.

Managing Director, IRCTC, 11 floor, B-148,
Statesman House, Barakhamba Road,
New Delhi-110001.

———— (Commercial Circular No. _\@__ of 2019)
Sub: Online booking of reserved tickets by foreign tourists.

Ref: (i) Letter no. 2017/TG-1/20/P/FT Quota Pt. (Addendum to CC No. 54 of
2017 dated 24.04.2018)
(ii) Letter no. 2016/Tourism/120/1 dated 19.09.2017.

Instructions were issued vide addendum to CC No. 54 of 2017 dated 24.04.2018 |
circulating a scheme for online booking of reserved ticket by foreign tourists,

In the scheme, provision was made for registering demand of foreign tourists for
booking of reserved accommodation upto 365 days in advance only in 1st AC, 2AC &
Executive Classes.

2, ‘The matter has been reviewed. Competent Authority have now decided as
under:

(i) Existing scheme of online booking of reserved accommodation by foreign
tourists upto 365 days in advance shall be allowed in the existing format
advised vide addendum of CC No. 54 of 2017 dated 24.04.2018.

(ii) In addition to 1A, 2A & EC classes, the facility of online. registeration of
demand by foreign tourist upto 365 days in advance shall also be provided
in Sleeper, 3A, AC Chair Car and 2S classes subject to the following
limitations

No. of berths/seats
04 berths per coach
04 berths per coach _
06 seats per coach
___05 seats per train

(iii) Keeping in view discontinuation of facility of Ind Rail Passes (IRP) and the
scheme of General Sales Agents (GSAs), no request for booking of reserved
tickets from foreign tourist quota or otherwise against IRP shall be
accepted.

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(iv) Zonal Railways can earmark Foreign Tourist Quota in different classes, for
booking by Foreign Tourists within ARP, based on demand pattern. The
quota so earmarked shall be reviewed periodically based on utilisation and
adjustments made, wherever required.

' 5, This issues with the concurrence of Finance Directorate of Ministry of Railways

6. Necessary instructions may be issued to all concerned accordingly.
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(Shelly Srivastava)

Director Passenger Marketing
Railway Board

No. 2017/TG-1/20/P/FT Quota Pt. New Delhi, Dated: /|4 .03.2019

Copy forwarded to:

FA & CAO, All Zonal Railways.
Director (Audit), All Zonal Railways.

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for Financial Comm ssibher, Railways

Copy to:

1. CCM/PMs and CCM/PSs, all Zonal Railways...

2. EDV(T),EDFC,DF{C),PPS/FC, OSD/TC, F(C) & V{SS) branches of Railway Board.

3. MD/IRCTC, B-148,11th Floor, Statesman House, Barakhamba Road, New Delhi-1,
4. General Manager/PRS-I, CRIS, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi.

5. DG, Professor/Training & Professor/Commercial Railway Staff College, Vadodara.

6. The Principals, Zonal Railway Training Institutes, Central Railway/Bhusawal,

Eastern Railway/Bhuli-Dhanbad, Northern Railway/Chandausi, East Central
Railway/ Muzaffarpur, NF Railway/Alipurduar, Southern Railway/Trichy, South
Central Railway /Moula Ali, SE Railway/Sini, North Western Railway / Udaipur.

7. Director, Indian Railway Institute of Transport Management, Hardoi Bypass Road,
Manak Nagar, Lucknow-2260011.

8. General Secretary, National Federation of Indian Railwaymen (NFIR), 3, Chelmsford
Road, New Delhi. ः

9. General Secretary, All India Railwaymen Federation (AIRF), 4, State Entry Road,
New Delhi.

10. Secretary General, Federation of Railway Officers Association (FROA), Room No.

370, Rail Bhawan, New Delhi.

. Secretary General, Indian Railways Promotee Officers Federation (IRPOF), Room No.

268, Rail Bhawan, New Delhi.

12, Sécretary General, All India RPF Association, Room No. 256-D, Rail Bhawan, New
Delhi. .

13.CTM, Metro Railway, Metro Rail Bhawan, 33/1, J.L. Nehru Road, Kolkata-71.

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